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Feb 8, 2023 · The Matter of Aratta is the modern-day title for a collection of four poems – Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana, Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, and Lugalbanda and the Anzud Bird – concerning the rivalry between the cities of Uruk and Aratta and dated to the Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE). Tablet of King Lugalbanda.
- Joshua J. Mark
Fragment of a tablet with "Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta", 1900–1600 BC. Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC ). It is one of a series of accounts describing the conflicts between Enmerkar, king of Unug-Kulaba, and ...
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Lugalbanda. Dynasty. Uruk I. Enmerkar [a] [b] was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign [c] was attributed. According to literary sources, he led various campaigns against the land of Aratta. He is credited in Sumerian legend as the inventor of writing. [4]
- Uruk I
- c. 3400-3100 BC (Late Uruk Period)
Enmerkar, ancient Sumerian hero and king of Uruk (Erech), a city-state in southern Mesopotamia, who is thought to have lived at the end of the 4th or beginning of the 3rd millennium bc. Along with Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh, Enmerkar is one of the three most significant figures in the surviving Sumerian epics. Although scholars once assumed that ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 12, 2023 · Gilgamesh : a new English version. Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage.
t. e. Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave is a Sumerian mythological account. It is one of the four known stories that belong to the same cycle describing conflicts between Enmerkar, king of Unug ( Uruk ), and an unnamed king of Aratta. The story is also referred to as “Lugalbanda in the Wilderness” or “Lugalbanda I” and followed by the ...
Of the nine known epic tales concerned with the heroes Enmerkar, Lugalbanda, and Gilgamesh, only four are duplicated to some extent by the Ur pieces: “Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta,” “Lugalbanda and Enmerkar,” “Gilgamesh and the Land of the Living,” “Gilgamesh, Enkidu and the Nether World.”
